Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

出生 : 1945-02-07, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

死亡 : 2011-01-02

略歴

Pete Postlethwaite was an English stage, film and television actor. After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr. Kobayashi, in The Usual Suspects, and he appeared in Alien 3, In the Name of the Father, Amistad, Brassed Off, The Shipping News, The Constant Gardener, The Age of Stupid, Inception, The Town, Romeo + Juliet, and Æon Flux. In television, Postlethwaite's most notable performance was as the villain Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill in the Sharpe television series and television movies opposite actor Sean Bean's character of Richard Sharpe. Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, England in 1946. He trained as a teacher and taught drama before training as an actor. Steven Spielberg called Postlethwaite "the best actor in the world" after working with him on The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He received an Academy Award nomination for his role in In the Name of the Father in 1993, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 New Year's Honours List. He died of pancreatic cancer on 2 January 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pete Postlethwaite, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Killing Bono
Karl
The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
Return to Jurassic Park
Self
A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the making of part of one of the films, including the hurricane during the shooting of the first film, and how advances in CGI for Jurassic Park helped change the world of special effects forever. All interviews for these retrospective documentaries come with comments from Spielberg, Johnston, Neill, Dern, Goldblum, the effects crews, the child actors, and Peter Stormare. This documentary is broken into five parts: Dawn of a New Era (25 min) Making Prehistory (20 min), the Next Step in Evolution (15 min), and the Third Adventure (25 min), Finding the Lost World (28 min), and Something Survived (16 min).
ザ・タウン
Fergus "Fergie" Colm
過去最大のヤマを控えながら、銀行強盗のリーダーである男は足を洗って、犯罪まみれの街から脱出しようと心に決めていた。そんな彼の前に、一味の逮捕に執念を燃やすFBI捜査官が立ちはだかる。今をときめくキャストを率いて、主演のベン・アフレックが脚本/監督も務めた怒涛の犯罪アクション。サスペンス溢れる巧みな筋運びは、全米の批評家をうならせた。ボストンの犯罪多発地域を舞台に、激しく息詰まるドラマが展開される。
インセプション
Maurice Fischer
他人の夢に潜入してアイデアを盗み出す企業スパイのコブは国際指名手配犯であるが、それと同時に妻モルを殺した容疑もかけられていた。そんな彼に日本人男性サイトーからある依頼が。それはこれまでのように思考を盗み出すのではなく、標的にした人物の潜在意識に、あるアイデアを移植する“インセプション”という仕事だった。コブはサイトーを含むスペシャリスト6人を集め、標的の男性ロバートの夢に潜入しようとする。
タイタンの戦い
Spyros
星座が誕生する以前の古代ギリシア時代。世界を支配していたのはクロノスが率いるタイタンの神々だった。しかし、クロノスの息子の神であるゼウス、ポセイドン、ハデスらオリンポスの神が台頭した。ゼウスはハデスに「父を倒す為の怪物」を創る様に頼んだ。ハデスは自身の肉体を削り恐ろしい怪物クラーケンを創った。クロノスを打ち倒したゼウスたちはそれぞれの支配地を決めたゼウスは天界と神々の王にポセイドンは海洋の王になった。しかし、ハデスはゼウスに騙されて長兄でありながら暗黒の冥界の王となっていた。やがて神々は人間を創り、彼らからの崇拝と愛を糧に不老不死を保っていた。しかし、傲慢の限りを尽くす神々に対し、ついに人間たちは反旗を翻す。
The Age of Stupid
The Archivist
The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Solomon Kane
William Crowthorn
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
Narrator
30 years since his first European Cup success, 15 years since his retirement and 5 years after his death; Brian Clough continues to fascinate. The Afterlife of Brian continues a pace; best-selling book after best-selling book, a statue is unveiled in Nottingham city centre, and a feature film is released. "Clough" has intimate access with the family as Brian is forever remembered in bronze and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of Nigel as he becomes the new manager of Derby County, on the night the wheel comes full circle and he takes over at the club his father walked out on 35 years ago.
Waving at Trains
Douglas Warren
Some summer days last forever… A poignant short film starring Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite in one of his last film roles.
Player
Colin
The story of a claustrophobic relationship between a single mother and her piano prodigy son. Arriving in a tight-knit rural community, the pair become embroiled in local romances which push their own relationship to boiling point.
Closing the Ring
Quinlan
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
Ghost Son
Doc
A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.
オーメン666
Father Brennan
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
Valley of the Heart's Delight
Albion Munson
When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, California, a hard-nosed young reporter takes on the powers-that-be to prevent the lynching of two men he believes are innocent.
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Self
The Constant Gardener featurette.
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
Self
イーオン・フラックス
Keeper
2011年に致死性のウイルスが突如発生、人類の99%が死滅したことで、世界は人類滅亡の危機に陥った。科学者トレヴァー・グッドチャイルドの開発したワクチンで生き残ったわずか500万人の人類は、救世主の子孫グッドチャイルド一族の圧政的な管理化の下、汚染された外界と壁で隔てられた都市ブレーニャで暮らしていた。病気も、飢餓も、戦争もないユートピア都市は秘密と虚偽で成り立っていた。
ナイロビの蜂
Lorbeer
レイフ・ファインズ主演の社会派サスペンス。ナイロビに駐留する英国外交官ジャスティンは、慈善活動に熱心な妻を殺されてしまう。その後、彼は独自に調査を開始。やがて薬物実験や汚職など、多国籍企業による陰謀が浮き彫りになっていく。
ダーク・ウォーター
Veeck
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in her daughter's bedroom.
Red Mercury
Gold Commander
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.
Gone Dark / The Limit
Gale Carmody
An elderly woman turns the tables on her kidnapper.
Strange Bedfellows
Russell McKenzie (taxman)
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
Cowboy Up
Reid Braxton
"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is the craziest guy around; his brother Hank (Kiefer Sutherland) is a rodeo clown, and the two use each other to play up their acts. But love may be one thing that tears the brothers apart. When Ely falls for the rodeo's sweetheart (Daryl Hannah), Hank is filled with jealousy and hatred. The brothers try to come to grips with their differences, but the competition gets as fierce as the bulls in the ring.
Between Strangers
John
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
Kobayashi (archive footage)
Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly Spacey. There is no "plot" or "promotional" elements to this documentary - all of the information offered is substantial and informative as we are let in on all the details of trying to seek out the right actors for the parts, as well as the thoughts of the actors about joining an independent production helmed by a young director. Part 2 is a more interesting look at the production itself, complete with the problems and obstacles that faced the low-budget feature, as well as the happier memories of the work that the cast and crew went through. There's a lot of discussion of the infamous laughter during the lineup sequence, complete with a few outtakes of the scene.
Triggermen
Ben Cutler
Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend they are the hitmen but soon find they get more than they bargained for when the real ones turn up.
The Shipping News
Tert Card
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Rat
Hubert Flynn
After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
When the Sky Falls
Martin Shaughnessy
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite trying to step outside of the normal bounds. Kevin McNally plays her husband, who hates her activities and the danger in which she places herself. Nonetheless, he grudgingly admires her persistence and encourages her investigation.
Animal Farm
Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
An animated film from 1999 based on the famous novel by George Orwell. Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
Wayward Son
Ben Alexander
Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. Jesse Banks Rhodes (Harry Connick, Jr.) is suddenly and inexplicably released from jail after serving part of a life sentence on a trumped up charge for murder. He heads back for Georgia to reclaim his life and finds himself staying with farmer Ben Alexander (Pete Postlethwaite). Initially, Ben's family is mistrustful of the ex-con, but slowly they begin to warm to him, particularly Ben's fragile daughter Wesley (Patricia Clarkson). After witnessing the murder of a black worker at the hands of his drunken white racist boss, Jesse vows to make things right.
Alice in Wonderland
Carpenter
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches. But will she ever be able to return home?
Lost for Words
Deric Longden
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where?
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
Self
Narrated by Connick himself in a candid look at his own life and career, the program features interviews with jazz greats Branford and Wynton Marsalis and their father, Ellis Marsalis.
The Divine Ryans
Uncle Reg Ryan
When Draper Doyle’s father drops dead two days after his birthday, Draper realises that he his memories of visiting his father two days previously have vanished. With the help of Uncle Reg, he attempts to piece his memory back together.
Among Giants
Ray
A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian with a spirit of adventure and mountain climbing skills. She wants a job, and against the others' advice, who don't want a woman on the job, Ray hires her. Then she and Ray fall in love. He asks her to marry him, gives her a ring. Steve's jealous; Ray's ex-wife complains that he spends on Gerry, not his own kids, and she predicts that Gerry won't stay around. Plus, there's pressure to finish the job fast. Economics, romance, and wanderlust spark the end.
アミスタッド
Holabird
1839年夏、嵐の吹き荒れる夜、キューバの海岸沖でスペインの奴隷船ラ・アミスタッド号の船倉に捕らわれていた53人のアフリカ人たちが暴動を起こした。乗務員を殺害し、船を乗っ取った彼らの目的はただひとつ、母国アフリカに帰ること。だが彼らは2ヶ月後、アメリカの沿岸警備船に取り押さえられ投獄。死刑確実となる。
Bandyta
Sincai
Bastard depicts the distress of needy children and the love of a nurse and a hard boiled criminal. A film from Polish director Maciej Dejczer and actor Til Schweiger’s first international film.
ロスト・ワールド/ジュラシック・パーク
Roland Tembo
コスタリカの沖合いに浮かぶ離れ小島、ロス・シンコ・ムエルタス。そこは“サイトB”と呼ばれる、<ジュラシック・パーク計画>において恐竜をクローン生産させるための拠点だった。ところがハモンドの会社は倒産寸前で、この危機を救おうと甥のルドローは恐竜を生け捕り、見せ物にする計画を発表する。マルカムはハモンドに探検隊のリーダーを依頼されたが、一度は断った。だが恋人の恐竜学者サラがすでに出発したことを知り、慌てて彼も“サイトB”へ向かうのだが…。
The Serpent's Kiss
Thomas Smith
A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Himself
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's 1997 film "The Lost World."
ブラス!
Danny
1992年のイングランド北部ヨークシャー地方、炭坑の町グリムリーは炭坑閉鎖問題で揺れていた。結成百年の伝統を誇る名門ブラスバンド、グリムリー・コリアリー・バンドでも、メンバーそれぞれが苦境に陥っていた。バンドに全情熱を傾けるリーダー兼指揮者、ダニーは、全英選手権に出場し、ロイヤル・アルバート・ホールで演奏して優勝することを夢見てメンバーに激を飛ばすが、炭坑夫である彼らは炭鉱閉鎖の不安ゆえに気もそぞろだ。 そんな折り、グロリアが生まれ故郷のグリムリーに戻って来る。彼女はかつてのダニーの親友の孫娘で、フリューゲル・ホーン持参で練習場に現れ、いきなり難曲の「アランフェス協奏曲」をバンドと巧みに奏で一同を感心させてしまったのだが…。
ロミオ+ジュリエット
Father Laurence
シェイクスピアの名作を現代に舞台を移して甦らせた、バズ・ラーマン監督作品。プロットや台詞を原作から忠実に引用しながらも、設定や映像はあくまで現代風、という大胆な脚色が話題に。主演はレオナルド・ディカプリオとクレア・デーンズ。
Crimetime
Sidney
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
ドラゴンハート
Gilbert
『ドラゴンハート』(英語: Dragonheart)は、1996年に公開されたロブ・コーエンによるアメリカ合衆国の映画作品。ドラゴンが存在する中世のヨーロッパを舞台としたファンタジー映画。続編として、『ドラゴンハート 新たなる旅立ち』『ドラゴンハート 最後の闘い』が製作されている。
ジャイアント・ピーチ
The Magic Man
イギリスに住む9歳の少年ジェームズは両親をサイに襲われて亡くし、意地悪なふたりの叔母に引き取られていた。そんな彼の夢は、夢が叶う場所、ニューヨークへ行くこと。ある日、彼は見知らぬ老人から緑色に輝く不思議なものが入った袋をもらい、誤ってそれを桃の木の根元にこぼしてしまう。すると、みるみるうちに巨大な桃が育ち、それを一口かじったジェームズは桃の中へ。中には6匹の虫たちが待っていた。彼らと仲良くなったジェームズは、大きな桃に乗って、一路ニューヨークへと旅立つ。しかし彼らの行く手には思いがけないトラブルが待ち受けていた。
When Saturday Comes
Ken Jackson
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?
ユージュアル・サスペクツ
Kobayashi
船舶の炎上事故を調べていた捜査官クラインは尋問していたヴァーバルから奇妙な話を聞かされる。6週間前に銃器強奪事件の容疑者として集められた5人が、釈放後、協力して宝石強奪を決行。ブツをさばくためにLAの故買屋と接触した5人は、そこで新たなヤマを依頼されるが、宝石と聞かされていた獲物は麻薬で、トラブルから相手を射殺してしまう。そして恐慌状態の彼らの前に、伝説のギャング“カイザー・ソゼ”の右腕と名乗る弁護士が現れたというのだ。
Suite 16
Glover
After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and the cops closing in on the hotel fast, he wanders into "Suite 16" in a fit of despair. Inside, a handicapped and wheelchair bound Glover is held captive for the evening once discovered by Chris. However, things change the next day when Glover informs Chris that the woman he slept with is now dead; and that he surely will be sought out for her murder. Lonely and bored, Glover offers to shelter Chris for awhile while the cuts and bruises from the previous nights escapades have time to heal.
Sharpe's Enemy
Hakeswill
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Pierre Ducos.
Sharpe's Company
Hakeswill
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?
Sin Bin
Mitch
A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.
父の祈りを
Giuseppe Conlon
爆破テロ事件の犯人という冤罪を受け、親族まで逮捕された男。父は「冤罪をそそげ」と遺言を残して獄死してしまう……。世界的な関心を集めたジェリー・コンロンの手記を映画化した作品。
Anchoress
William Carpenter
Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a visionary girl who is to become an Anchoress (walled-in recluse) so that she can "live in the Virgin's house forever." Based on actual letters that were written about such an Anchoress in 1325, the film follows Christine as she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Quince
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
ラスト・オブ・モヒカン
Captain Beams
ヨーロッパ人による植民地戦争が激化する18世紀半ばの建国直前の新大陸アメリカを舞台に、インディアンに育てられた白人青年の愛と友情を描く。ジェイムズ・G.ロビンソンの小説をマイケル・マン監督が映像化した感動作。
秘密
Henry Crick
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
エイリアン3
David Postlethwaite
惑星LV-426のエイリアン殲滅後、生き残った者達は冷凍睡眠につき、宇宙船スラコ号で地球に向かっていたが謎の事故を起こす。スラコ号から切り離された脱出艇はフィオリーナ161(通称フューリー)で回収されたが、ヒックスやニュートは着陸の際に死亡、ビショップも機能を停止していた。この漂着先は流刑の星で凶悪な囚人達が戒律の元で自活的な生活をおくり、放射性廃棄物を収める鉛のコンテナを作る作業をしていた。唯一の女性であるリプリーの出現で惑星の秩序は一時乱れるが囚人頭であるディロンが事態を収拾する。そんな時、脱出艇に潜んでいたエイリアンが活動を始める。
スプリット・セカンド
Paulsen
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
The Grass Arena
The Dipper
The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he has to defend himself. Growing into adulthood he takes up boxing, but soon falls victim to alcoholism. His boxing career over, John takes to the Grass Arena (the park) where he lives with other alcoholics. Prison time introduces him to a new and unexpected path.
They Never Slept
Panter
When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance.
ハムレット
Player King
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
Needle
Paula's Father
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Treasure Island
George Merry
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.
The Dressmaker
Jack
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Father
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series (along with "Trilogy" and "The Long Day Closes") is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. Through a series of exquisite tableaux Davies creates a deeply affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.
Tumbledown
Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
To Kill a Priest
Josef
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Coast to Coast
Kecks McGuinness
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Ragueneau
As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as timid as a schoolboy before the fair Roxanne. Derek Jacobi delivers an electrifying award-winning portrayal of Rostand's legendary log-nosed swordsman in this highly acclaimed production from the world's premier theatre troupe, The Royal Shakespeare Company. The bold Cyrano boasts he can defeat a hundred men in a swordfight, but because of his grotesque nose lacks the confidence to court the woman he loves. Yet so entranced with Roxanne is Cyrano that he uses the eloquence of his poetry to woo her for a rival.
A Private Function
Nuttol
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
Fords on Water
Winston's Boss
Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemployment in Thatcher's Britain.
The Muscle Market
Danny Duggan
Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.
Afternoon Off
Attendant in Art Gallery
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
Doris and Doreen
Mr. Lomax
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.
デュエリスト/決闘者
Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
1800年。フランスのストラスブール。軽騎兵のフェロー中尉(ハーヴェイ・カイテル)が町の有力者の甥を決闘で傷つけた。“名誉のため”という名目だったが、軍の命令はフェローに厳しかった。その命令を単に伝える使命でフェローのもとを訪れた軽騎兵デュベール中尉(キース・キャラダイン)は、理由もなくフェローに決闘を申し込まれ、名誉のために受けてたち、彼に傷を与えた。この日から二人の宿命的な対決の人生がはじまった。フェローはデュベールとの決闘に執念を燃やし、彼の行く先々に姿を現わした。二度目の対決は、デュベールがアウグスブルグに駐屯していた時だった。決闘で負傷したデュベールに、将軍はこれ以上決闘を続ければ除隊させると告げた。しかし、1806年、リューべックではデュベールがフェローを傷つけて終わるが、1812年ロシア遠征では、奇妙な友情のような感情が芽ばえだし、凍るような寒さの中で互いに手をさしのべあうのだった。そして1814年、ルイ18世が即位したフランス。デュベールは、姉のすすめでアデル(クリスティーナ・レインズ)と結婚し、しあわせで平穏な生活を送っていた。そこにまたしてもフェローが現われ、決闘を申し込んだ。最後の決闘はピストルで行なわれることになった。廃虚に銃声が轟いた。しかし、優勢に立ったデュベールは、フェローから的をはずして発砲し、その場を去っていた。
The Paradise Run
Soldier
Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion will not be a solution, and he finds himself more distressed than ever.
Occupy!
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation hybrid about the occupation of the Fisher-Bendix Factory in Kirkby. Dohany uses a variety of imaginative techniques to explore the longstanding dispute, and a pronounced sense of urgency pervades this act of solidarity.
Thwum
Duffy
Presumed lost after its initial broadcast in 1975, Thwum features a young Pete Postlethwaite in his earliest television appearance. This sci-fi themed play sees UFO fanatic Bernard (Paul Moriarty) trying to convince skeptical reporter Duffy (Pete Postlethwaite) to report on the imminent landing of an alien craft. An almost complete copy – two minutes are missing – was recovered from a domestic video recording kept by director Pedr James. [adapted from wearecult.rocks] Part of the anthology series Second City Firsts.